There are terrible people in this world. I’ve known that for a very, very long time. There are those that twist religion to benefit themselves, double-crossers, and people who will have their co-workers swatted just for existing. But, you cannot add yourself to that list in the process of “being American.” You are the epitome of a loser if you target people because of their race, gender identity, political leanings, sexual orientation, or disability. If you work at Google, you clearly have done something right in life. I’m pretty sure Google doesn’t let just anyone in the door. It is high time we leave our beliefs and prejudices outside of the work place. We’re all in this thing called life on this place called earth together; it’s time to start acting like it.

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Women Who Go: A New Regime: I am deeply saddened that Sarah Adams is leaving the Go community. When I attended GopherCon last year it was, to that point, the biggest conference I’ve been to. Sarah was the one person in the whole of Denver to get me out of my shell. She has been a source of inspiration to me as I’ve learned to deal with some of my anxiety issues of late.

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Why successful DevOps implementation requires a “cultural change”: I remember working in support and ops at McClatchy Interactive. A lot of our problems could have been solved relatively quickly if developers were responsible for maintaining the code in production. Flattening your organization’s structure could take you a long way in your DevOps transformation (assuming you have hired for that; skills matter).

Zstandard: A real-time compression algorithm [from Facebook], providing high compression ratios. It offers a very wide range of compression / speed trade-off, while being backed by a very fast decoder.

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I'm Chris Short, 20+ veteran of the IT industry and 11 year veteran of the US Air Force. I help people and companies embrace DevOps practices and tools through writing and public speaking. I am a staunch advocate for transparency and open source solutions to problems.